London’s Royal Academy of Arts is due to kick off its annual Summer Exhibition, the largest open contemporary art exposition on the planet, on June 8th. Having run every year since 1769, the event is now in its 241st year and draws on a long and rich heritage. It now attracts around 10,000 submissions, with selections being carried out by academicians. The theme of the 2009 edition of the show is Making Space. Works will be selected by directors Eileen Cooper, Will Alsop and Ann ... Read More

Raandesk® Gallery of Art, which represents emerging contemporary artists in a variety of media, is pleased to announce its participation in the 2009 Affordable Art Fair, May 6–10, at 7 West 34th St. This is Raandesk’s first appearance at the Affordable Art Fair, but its third international art show following Photo San Francisco in July 2006 and Bridge Art Fair in 2008. Selected from a highly competitive field of contemporary art galleries, the gallery will display the works of 11 ... Read More

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a new exhibition and publication, Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim. As the first recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum, Guy Tillim traveled through Angola, Mozambique, Congo, and Madagascar, documenting the grand colonial architecture and how it has become part of a contemporary African stage. The exhibition opens Wednesday, April 29, 2009 and will remain on view through ... Read More

April 30 through June 7 Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Julius Shulman: Oklahoma Modernism Rediscovered is the first-ever retrospective of photographs taken in Oklahoma by legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman. The exhibit runs from April 30 through June 7 and will feature over 65 images – many unseen by the public for decades – of buildings designed by such world-renowned architects as Bruce Goff, Herb Greene, William Caudill, Truett Coston, Robert ... Read More

BOSTON – International Poster Gallery celebrates its 15th anniversary on Newbury Street with a dazzling selection of posters from its world-leading collection of Italian masterpieces. This thematic exhibition assembles rare and beautiful posters, with subjects including opera, travel, food and beverage, transportation and propaganda. The show is free and open to the public and will be on view May 15 through July 5, 2009. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 10 am to 6 pm and ... Read More

The Jerusalem Artists’ House is delighted to present “Befriend Your Demon,” a selection of haunting images of Tel Aviv street art by noted Jerusalem-based photographer Leora Cheshin. The cracked and crumbling walls, weather-beaten doors and windswept alleyways in Tel Aviv’s varied neighborhoods have become the main canvas for an eclectic group of mostly immigrant artists. Working individually and in crews with stencils, spray paint, markers and paste-ups, they have transformed ... Read More

New works by photographer Elena Dorfman commissioned by 21c Museum are on view for the first time in the exhibition, Pleasure Park: The Horses. The photographic portraits of thoroughbreds were taken in the studio—outside the context of either the race track or the horse farm—provoking a fresh look at these familiar animals. Pleasure Park: The Horses marks the third exhibition of Dorfman’s photographs organized by 21c Museum; previous exhibitions were Still Lovers and Fandomania. ... Read More

Christie’s Russian Art sale set a world auction record for Svetoslav Roerich with a painting of his father entitled, Portrait of Nicholas Roerich in a Tibetan Robe, 1933, which sold for $2,994,500. The painting led Russian Art week in New York, and exceeded the pre-sale high estimate of $1,100,000. The previous record for a painting by the artist was $266,500, for Three Boddisatvas. Alexis Tiesenhausen, International Head of Department, Russian Art, comments, “We are delighted with ... Read More

(Newton, MA) – Jonathan Fairbanks, The Katherine Lane Weems Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Vice President of Research at Artfact, was recently honored at The Decorative Arts Trust Spring Symposium at The Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Jonathan was given The Decorative Arts Trust Award for Excellence for Distinctive Contributions in the Field of the Decorative. Bruce Coleman Perkins, who succeeded Jonathan as President of ... Read More

(Newton, MA) – Eclectic couture and vintage fashion auctions held in London and New York City on April 28-29, 2009, will be made available to bidders around the world through Artfact Live! (Invaluable Live! in the UK). Leading off on April 28th is “The Amanda Wakeley Archive and General Vintage Auction” offered by Kerry Taylor Auctions, based in London. The next day, in New York City, Augusta Auctions presents its “Spring Couture and Vintage Fashion” sale. If making it to ... Read More

Eyestorm is pleased to release two brand new limited edition lithographs by the artist behind much of the early Rolling Stones artwork including the famous ‘tongue and lips’ logo, one of the most recognisable symbols in Rock & Roll history. Until now, John Pasche has remained relatively anonymous in the art world. He was first commissioned to make art work for The Rolling Stones in 1970 while at The Royal College of Art as a student. Initially asked to design a poster for their ... Read More

Exhibition from May 1 – May 30 Opening reception at May 1th, 7pm EVOL’s interests have focused on the overlooked and the refuse of urban society, offering visual comments and thoughts that remind us of the failure of modernism and its visions of an architectural utopia. EVOL draws our attention to the collective memory of places, a memory that is open ended, but in it’s decoding always seems to remain strangely personal. The artists’ exploration of urban sites and the ... Read More

Pete Townshend’s legendary rock opera Quadrophenia is brought to the stage for the first time and appears at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday 26 to Saturday 30 May as part of a UK tour. Set in London and Brighton at the height of the Mod era, Quadrophenia is told through the eyes of Jimmy, a hedonistic style conscious teenager searching for a place to belong and a girl to love. Misunderstood by his parents and stuck in a dead end job, he sets off on a trip to Brighton ... Read More

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), the leading non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the United States image abroad through American art, works with the State Department and preeminent American artists to create and donate artwork for U.S. embassies around the world. FAPE announced today that it will honor Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, with the first annual Leonore and Walter Annenberg Award for Diplomacy ... Read More

Robert Adanto’s The Rising Tide, which recently screened at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, examines China’s economic and cultural metamorphoses through the work of some of the Middle Kingdom’s most talented video artists and photographers, including the internationally recognized Cao Fei, Xu Zhen, Wang Qingsong, Chen Qiulin, O Zhang, Yang Yong and Birdhead. The film is narrated by Rosalind Chao and Gordon Chang. The film will screen at The Peabody-Essex Museum in ... Read More